Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] just [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The place that Belov had in mind was just a couple of hundred metres further , he told her . |
| 2 | That kind of farce was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 3 | This may seem a minor disagreement , but if you were to question me about Panofsky , I would have to say that the disagreement was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 4 | It had been a Church of Ireland rectory once , where some forgotten incumbent , a keen hunting man , had built a delightful little yard , adjoining the house and with every horsebox looking into the sun ; with a hundred acres of good limestone land , the place was just the thing for Andrew and his horse-dealing . |
| 5 | All this led me to believe that written approval was just a matter of time . |
| 6 | Proud until I took the tools from the display card and then pride turned to disappointment for I had expected that the tools would be scaled down versions of Dad 's but the saw was just a piece of tin stamped out — it would n't cut paper and the hammer was similarly made . |
| 7 | The ivory damask curtains were drawn and Faye 's body was just a hump in the darkness . |
| 8 | Oh just a smir of rain was just a kind of hardly a drizzle . |
| 9 | There is still a strong political pressure towards the Gradgrind model of curriculum design , as though education were just a game of ‘ Trivial Pursuit ’ . |
| 10 | The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time . |
| 11 | Well I started when my children were quite young , and taught them that er advertisements on television were just an invitation to be ripped off . |
| 12 | Chewing the fat last week , Santa Cruz Operation Inc observed that ‘ the Advanced Computing Environment was just a figment of the ACE consortium 's imagination . ’ |
| 13 | Separating the province from the rest of the island was just a way of sidestepping the Protestant minority 's implacable hostility to a British withdrawal . |
| 14 | ‘ If we slip up and drop into mid-table , people will say that our start to the season was just a flash in the pan . |
| 15 | Young men still came up to the colleges , but they reminded Lewis of his own position in 1917 , when his glimpse of Oxford life was just a prelude to the horrors of battle . |
| 16 | WHEN LIFE WAS JUST A CABARET FOR POISON IVY |
| 17 | But to Kylie the incident was just a re-run of thousands she had lived through before . |
| 18 | This yard was just a kind of higgledy-piggledy yard with a with a a wall along there where you 're standing and a few lean-tos . |
| 19 | Or perhaps the recent tremor was just a prelude to the really big one . |
| 20 | ‘ Venture Capitalist was just a neck behind Lochsong at Doncaster last week and he should have won . |
| 21 | The tail was just a stump with a few feathers beginning to show through , rather like the beard stubble that appears when someone has n't shaved fur a couple of days . |
| 22 | Reminds you of the US Interstate Highway system and the way it instantly snarled as soon as Washington residents tried to exit en masse during the riots of the late 1960s , does n't it … that blizzard coming on top of the New York World Trade Center bombing was just the kind of disaster the disaster recovery industry has been dreading : according to the New York Times , a heavy accumulation of snow caused the roof of the computer centre in Clifton , New Jersey that supports 5,000 automatic teller machines US-wide , 6% of the total , to collapse , putting the machines out of action — and the centre could n't transfer its operations to the North Bergen , New Jersey site where it had disaster recovery facilities arranged — because the site was full up with work transferred by Trade Center tenants … |
| 23 | Or perhaps the transition adventure was just a ripple on the ocean of complexity in which all newcomers to the Course must quickly learn to sink or swim . |
| 24 | Wright 's magnificent second goal was just the icing on the cake before a near 30,000 crowd , and proves that they will certainly be in with a shout when the title race really hots up . |
| 25 | Breast cancer was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 26 | As no doubt you have gathered , the company was just a front for some people of dubious nature . ’ |
| 27 | If you do n't believe in religion , you might think that er , the world was just kind of here for no particular reason , and er , that human existence was just a kind of accident or something happen happened , and er , has no has no greater significance . |
| 28 | The News International ban was just the type of dispute that must have been envisaged when the Code was drawn up . |
| 29 | Perhaps one of the reasons for his impact — as a man — on so many varied people was this great and lordly carelessness about where he was ‘ going ’ : as if a mapped-out course was just a waste of precious time . |
| 30 | On the other hand , there were friends who thought that the Shaffer play was just the sort of thing that Kenneth Williams needed to do . |